Home > Cisco > Interface > Cisco Ise 13 User Guide

Cisco Ise 13 User Guide

Here you can view all the pages of manual Cisco Ise 13 User Guide. The Cisco manuals for Interface are available online for free. You can easily download all the documents as PDF.

Page 101

CHAPTER 4
Set Up Inline Posture
•RoleofInlinePostureNodeinaCiscoISEDeployment,page55
•BestPracticesforInlinePostureDeployment,page62
•InlinePostureNodeGuidelines,page63
•InlinePostureNodeAuthorization,page66
•DeployanInlinePostureNode,page68
•ConfigureaHigh-AvailabilityPair,page73
•ConfigureInlinePostureNodeasRADIUSClientinAdministrationNode,page75
•RemoveanInlinePostureNodefromDeployment,page76
•HealthofanInlinePostureNode,page76
•RemoteAccessVPNUseCase,page77
•CollectionofInlinePostureNodeLogs,page78...

Page 102

Inline Posture Policy Enforcement
InlinePostureusesRADIUSproxyandURLredirectcapabilitiesinthecontrolplanetomanagedataplane
trafficforendpoints.AsaRADIUSproxy,InlinePostureisabletotapintoRADIUSsessionsbetweennetwork
accessdevices(NADs)andRADIUSservers.NADscanopenfullgatetoclienttraffic.However,Inline
Postureopensonlyenoughtoallowlimitedtrafficfromclients.Therestrictedbandwidthallowsclientsthe
abilitytohaveanagentprovisioned,postureassessed,andremediationcompleted.Thisrestrictionis...

Page 103

3TheInlinePosturenode,actingasaRADIUSproxy,relaystheAccess-RequestmessagetotheRADIUS
server.
4Afterauthenticatingtheuser,theRADIUSserversendsaRADIUSAccess-Acceptmessagebacktothe
InlinePosturenode.
TherecanbeanumberofRADIUStransactionsbetweentheEndpoint,WLC,InlinePosturenode,and
theCiscoISERADIUSserverbeforetheAccess-Acceptmessageissent.Theprocessdescribedinthis
examplehasbeensimplifiedforthesakeofbrevity.
5TheInlinePosturenodepassestheAccess-AcceptmessagetotheWLC,whichinturnauthorizesthe...

Page 104

havealreadybeeninstalledontheInlinePosturenode.Thesubsequentendpointauthenticationandauthorization
usestheexistinginstalledprofilesontheInlinePosturenode,unlesstheoriginalprofileshavebeenmodified
duringtheCiscoISEpolicyconfiguration.Inthelattercase,themodifiedprofilewithACLisdownloaded
andinstalledontheInlinePosturenode,replacingthepreviousversion.
Trusted and Untrusted Interfaces
ThefollowingterminologyplaysasignificantroleinInlinePosturedeployment:...

Page 105

Theeth2andeth3interfacesofbothnodescommunicatewithheartbeatprotocolexchangestodeterminethe
healthofthenodes.EachInlinePosturenodehasitsownphysicalIPaddressesonthetrustedanduntrusted
Ethernetinterfaces,butaseparateserviceIPaddressmustbeassignedtotheclusterasawhole.
TheserviceIPaddress,alsocalledavirtualIPaddress,isrequiredforRADIUSauthenticationpurposes.
YouassigntheserviceIPaddresstoboththetrustedanduntrustedinterfacesforbothnodesofthe...

Page 106

Inline Posture Routed Mode
TheInlinePostureroutedmodeactsasaLayer3“hop”inthewire,selectivelyforwardingpacketstospecified
addresses.Thismodeprovidestheabilitytosegregatenetworktraffic,allowingyoutospecifyuserswhohave
accesstoselecteddestinationaddresses.
Inroutedmode,theInlinePosturenodeoperatesasaLayer3router,andbecomesthedefaultgatewayfor
theuntrustednetworkwithitsmanagedclients.Alltrafficbetweentheuntrustedandtrustednetworkspasses...

Page 107

Inbridgedmode,theInlinePosturenodeoperatesasastandardEthernetbridge.Thisconfigurationistypically
usedwhentheuntrustednetworkalreadyhasagateway,andyoudonotwanttochangetheexisting
configuration.
ThefollowingfigureshowstheInlinePosturenodeactingasabridgefortheLayer2clienttrafficfromthe
WLCtotheCiscoISEnetwork,managedbythePolicyServicenode.Inthisconfiguration,InlinePosture
requiressubnetentriesforthe10.20.80.0/24and10.20.90.0/24subnetstobeabletorespondtoandsend...

Page 108

Inthisexample,theuntrustedIPaddressforInlinePosture1canbe10.20.70.101,andtheuntrustedIPaddress
forInlinePosture2canbe10.20.70.102.However,theserviceIPaddressforbothnodesontheuntrustedside
ofthenetworkwouldbe10.20.70.100.TheactiveInlinePosturenodeinthepair,atanypointoftime,assumes
theserviceIPaddressontheuntrustedsideofthenetwork.Thesameholdstrueforthetrustedsideofthe
network.
Figure 7: Inline Posture High-Availability Routed Mode Configuration...

Page 109

InlinePosturematchestheMAC,MACandIP,orsubnetaddresstodeterminewhetherthebypass
functionisenabledforadevice.Youcanchoosetobypasspolicyenforcementortoforciblyblock
access.
DonotconfiguretheMACaddressinaMACfilterforadirectlyconnectedASAVPN
devicewithoutalsoenteringtheIPaddress.WithouttheadditionoftheoptionalIP
address,VPNclientsareallowedtobypasspolicyenforcement.Thisbypasshappens
becausetheVPNisaLayer3hopforclients,andthedeviceusesitsownMACaddress...

Page 110

1TheInlinePosturenodeissupportedonlyonCiscoISE-3300seriesandSNS-3415appliances.Itisnot
currentlysupportedonCiscoSNS-3495applianceorasavirtualappliance.
2InlinePostureisunabletorunconcurrentlywithAdministration,PolicyService,orMonitoringpersonas
and,therefore,isadedicatednode.
3AnInlinePosturenodemustberegisteredtothePANonyournetwork.
4ForeachdeploymentinstanceofanInlinePosturenode,youcandeployastandalonenode,oran
active-standbypair....
Start reading Cisco Ise 13 User Guide

Related Manuals for Cisco Ise 13 User Guide

All Cisco manuals